Reading-Thinking Strategies

Enduring Understanding: Reading is Thinking



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Thinking (Comprehension) Strategies

“True comprehension goes beyond literal understanding and involves the reader’s interaction with text. If students are to become thoughtful, insightful readers, they must extend their thinking beyond a superficial understanding of the text.”

~Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis, Strategies That Work



The thinking strategies of proficient readers:


Online resources with information on the thinking strategies we use while reading:

http://www.ohiorc.org/adlit/strategy/
http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/tools.htm




Activating Background Knowledge and Making Connections

Questioning

Inferring

Visualizing

Monitoring for Understanding

Determining Importance and Evaluating Text

Synthesizing and Summarizing